Bush Admits Government Plants Fake News Stories For Political Agendas

Bush admits to participating in long-standing government practice of planting fake propaganda news stories in US media to promote political agendas.

Bush admits it is long-standing US practice to run false propaganda war stories

Bush Admits The Government Plants Fake News Stories

President Bush admits he participates in the long standing federal government practice of planting fake propaganda news stories in US media.

In this clip, Bush tells a reporter it has been a long standing federal government practice to pay journalists to run fake pre-packaged news stories, which server as government propaganda to further political agendas.

Federal authorities are actively investigating dozens of American television stations for broadcasting items produced by the Bush administration and major corporations, and passing them off as normal news. Some of the fake news segments talked up success in the war in Iraq, or promoted the companies’ products.

Investigators from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) are seeking information about stations across the country after a report produced by a campaign group detailed the extraordinary extent of the use of such items.

The report, by the non-profit group Centre for Media and Democracy, found that over a 10-month period at least 77 television stations were making use of the faux news broadcasts, known as Video News Releases (VNRs). Not one told viewers who had produced the items.

“We know we only had partial access to these VNRs and yet we found 77 stations using them,” said Diana Farsetta, one of the group’s researchers. “I would say it’s pretty extraordinary. The picture we found was much worse than we expected going into the investigation in terms of just how widely these get played and how frequently these pre-packaged segments are put on the air.”

Ms Farsetta said the public relations companies commissioned to produce these segments by corporations had become increasingly sophisticated in their techniques in order to get the VNRs broadcast. “They have got very good at mimicking what a real, independently produced television report would look like,” she said.

The FCC has declined to comment on the investigation but investigators from the commission’s enforcement unit recently approached Ms Farsetta for a copy of her group’s report.

Of course, the Fake News around Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction are no exception. Here’s Bush talking about the need to repeat things over and over to catapult the propaganda the day before his U.N. speech in which he catapulted the propaganda to justify invading Iraq.

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